No human truly believes what they say they believe. The people that actually have done the work to believe in something are what they label as fantics or extremists.
What most people do is do the minimum necessary to survive. For humans, survival is dependent first on their parents not killing them until they leave the next and once they leave the next all humans must strike aliegences with different tribes of humans.
In an alliegence exchange the individual gets access to the resources of the group and the group gets a new member (the members body) + the group gets to upload its value system to the new member.
Not all alliegences are of the same quality, but humans will typically display the minimum amount of signalling necessary to display their membership in the group in order to not get kicked out of the group.
Most people are not devout, most people don't believe, they are just lazily trying to survive.
The Bible says repeatedly that faith is a gift from god. You can’t choose to believe in god, and you can’t earn God’s favor by being “devout” or “putting in work.” Either God grants you the gift of faith or he does not. Even Jesus himself says no one can come to me unless my father brings him to me.
Did you do work to believe that the sky is blue? Nor can you do work to believe in God.
That is not to be interpreted as “everyone who says they believe has been given faith by God.” Naturally it makes sense that some people would fake it for the sense of a group or would feel pressured to ‘believe’ out of fear of hell, but people that truly believe were de facto chosen by God to believe.
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